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Regardless of the size, weight, and shape of its body in relation to its wingspread, the bumblebee flies. It goes about its work free, unconcerned with any aerodynamic theory.

Through the early annals of the Old Testament, from the days of Moses to the time of David, runs the story of Amalek and his tribe, persistent enemies of Israel. Mighty were the spiritual wrestlings of the prophets in their conflict with the materialistic Amalek, and pointed are their experiences when compared with ours today.

The story has been told of a little child who often sought to join a group of older girls and boys playing nearby in a fenced yard. Invariably her efforts to open the gate to the yard and enter drew this taunt from some one of the children: "Who says you can come in here?" For a long time the child permitted this unloving and unjust decree to deprive her of the joy of playing with the others.

In the heart of many people there is an innate yearning to realize man's inseparable unity with the Father. The homesickness of the prodigal son illustrates this human yearning, which eventually tires of belief in material selfhood and rises to journey toward a full understanding of the real man.

Defining the basis of the radical confidence in God which Christian Science inspires, Mary Baker Eddy writes in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 368 ), "The confidence inspired by Science lies in the fact that Truth is real and error is unreal.

He who has the right idea of overcoming understands that overcoming involves not only doing good, but also being the man that in reality he already is. He therefore does not endeavor to change something real.

We need solid convictions. Convictions based on truth, on spiritual understanding of God, of God's man and God's universe.

The incorporeal and divine nature of God as ever-present Love has been revealed to the world through God's two witnesses, Christ Jesus, the exemplar of Love, and Christian Science, the law of Love, discovered in 1866 by Mary Baker Eddy. Christian Science, which is the complete and final revelation of the truth Jesus demonstrated, teaches that infinite Love, Mind, or Spirit, is one, the one perfect and eternal Principle or cause of all real being, the one universal Father and Mother of man.

Generally speaking, there are two bases of endeavor, the spiritual and the material, and the right choice of these determines true happiness, health, and harmony. Looking down the vistas of material existence, one sees sin, disease, and misery confronting mortals at every turn.

Conversing with his disciples shortly after the transfiguration, Christ Jesus gave them a valuable recipe for harmonious living. He said to them, as recorded in Mark (9:50) , "Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.